These guys are basically bailing out now to try to skeeve their way into being the next strongman of whichever regime comes out on top in the post-Assad civil war. Because there's no doubt that he'll be gone, probably before the end of the year, and there's equally little doubt that the transition will make Libya look calm and organized.

"I announce today my defection from the killing and terrorist regime and I announce that I have joined the ranks of the freedom and dignity revolution. I announce that I am from today a soldier in this blessed revolution," Hijab said in a written statement read by spokesman Muhammad el-Etri on Al Jazeera on Monday.

"I will fight for this revolution by issuing statements through spokesmen, while staying in a country that isn't full of bullets and bombs and whatnot."

Hey man, bullets hurt. Dont judge.

hell, the information he can provide on the atrocities the current regime is committing will be more effective than any weapon he could have used.

hdhale:JohnAnnArbor: hdhale: rufus-t-firefly: zedster: rufus-t-firefly: You could have shivved Assad on your way out the door.

Thanks for nothing.

Oh, and you're not off the hook for everything that happened prior to your resignation.

Beat the rush: book a flight to the Hague ASAP.

umm... you realize the Syrian parliamentary only has one large rubber stamp that says "approved" and this guy was in office 2 months?

Which means he aided and abetted Assad. Previously, he served as governor of two different areas and as agriculture minister. He wasn't just some random guy off the street - he actively participated in Assad's government.

If you wield the rubber stamp, you endorse what you're stamping. Or are you a proponent of the "just following orders" defense that was discarded at Nuremberg?

More analogous to Rudolph Hess than Herman Goering and company (Hess got life and some say he shouldn't have)...but at this point I think it depends upon what sort of information he has and is willing to share about the inner working of the Assad regime.

Hess was certifiably nuts, and only got more so in prison. If the Russians would have agreed to it, I'm guessing he would have been released at some point on medical grounds.

Hess drank so much of the Kool-Aid that he believed Hitler when he said that he didn't want to destroy Great Britain and in fact hoped that Britain would join Germany on an anti-Bolshevik crusade. Nuts? In comparison the rest of the homicidal maniacs running the asylum? If anything Speer was the sane one (actually a glorified water boy for the most part) and Hess somewhere in between.

Speer ran the munitions industry for years--with lots of forced labor. That wasn't just making architectural drawings.

JohnAnnArbor:hdhale: rufus-t-firefly: zedster: rufus-t-firefly: You could have shivved Assad on your way out the door.

Thanks for nothing.

Oh, and you're not off the hook for everything that happened prior to your resignation.

Beat the rush: book a flight to the Hague ASAP.

umm... you realize the Syrian parliamentary only has one large rubber stamp that says "approved" and this guy was in office 2 months?

Which means he aided and abetted Assad. Previously, he served as governor of two different areas and as agriculture minister. He wasn't just some random guy off the street - he actively participated in Assad's government.

If you wield the rubber stamp, you endorse what you're stamping. Or are you a proponent of the "just following orders" defense that was discarded at Nuremberg?

More analogous to Rudolph Hess than Herman Goering and company (Hess got life and some say he shouldn't have)...but at this point I think it depends upon what sort of information he has and is willing to share about the inner working of the Assad regime.

Hess was certifiably nuts, and only got more so in prison. If the Russians would have agreed to it, I'm guessing he would have been released at some point on medical grounds.

Hess drank so much of the Kool-Aid that he believed Hitler when he said that he didn't want to destroy Great Britain and in fact hoped that Britain would join Germany on an anti-Bolshevik crusade. Nuts? In comparison the rest of the homicidal maniacs running the asylum? If anything Speer was the sane one (actually a glorified water boy for the most part) and Hess somewhere in between.

hdhale:rufus-t-firefly: zedster: rufus-t-firefly: You could have shivved Assad on your way out the door.

Thanks for nothing.

Oh, and you're not off the hook for everything that happened prior to your resignation.

Beat the rush: book a flight to the Hague ASAP.

umm... you realize the Syrian parliamentary only has one large rubber stamp that says "approved" and this guy was in office 2 months?

Which means he aided and abetted Assad. Previously, he served as governor of two different areas and as agriculture minister. He wasn't just some random guy off the street - he actively participated in Assad's government.

If you wield the rubber stamp, you endorse what you're stamping. Or are you a proponent of the "just following orders" defense that was discarded at Nuremberg?

More analogous to Rudolph Hess than Herman Goering and company (Hess got life and some say he shouldn't have)...but at this point I think it depends upon what sort of information he has and is willing to share about the inner working of the Assad regime.

Hess was certifiably nuts, and only got more so in prison. If the Russians would have agreed to it, I'm guessing he would have been released at some point on medical grounds.

rufus-t-firefly:zedster: rufus-t-firefly: You could have shivved Assad on your way out the door.

Thanks for nothing.

Oh, and you're not off the hook for everything that happened prior to your resignation.

Beat the rush: book a flight to the Hague ASAP.

umm... you realize the Syrian parliamentary only has one large rubber stamp that says "approved" and this guy was in office 2 months?

Which means he aided and abetted Assad. Previously, he served as governor of two different areas and as agriculture minister. He wasn't just some random guy off the street - he actively participated in Assad's government.

If you wield the rubber stamp, you endorse what you're stamping. Or are you a proponent of the "just following orders" defense that was discarded at Nuremberg?

More analogous to Rudolph Hess than Herman Goering and company (Hess got life and some say he shouldn't have)...but at this point I think it depends upon what sort of information he has and is willing to share about the inner working of the Assad regime.

"I announce today my defection from the killing and terrorist regime and I announce that I have joined the ranks of the freedom and dignity revolution. I announce that I am from today a soldier in this blessed revolution," Hijab said in a written statement read by spokesman Muhammad el-Etri on Al Jazeera on Monday.

"I will fight for this revolution by issuing statements through spokesmen, while staying in a country that isn't full of bullets and bombs and whatnot."